Testimony on the Falcata?

I’ve previously blogged about the falcata (Spanish sword) as an ethic marker on republican coins. Thus I found this passage of interest (Livy 31.34):

Philip’s men had been accustomed to fighting with Greeks and Illyrians and had only seen wounds inflicted by javelins and arrows and in rare instances by lances. But when they saw bodies dismembered with the Spanish sword, arms cut off from the shoulder, heads struck off from the trunk, bowels exposed and other horrible wounds, they recognised the style of weapon and the kind of man against whom they had to fight, and a shudder of horror ran through the ranks.